Hi! I have done a standalone music player. It is a case with two LCD's and 9 buttons. I have 40Gb of lossy compressed files and near 500 albums on it.
I post because I would like to help somebody to do it if they don't know how and want to do something with that old pentium 100 that never uses.


EDIT: It is great too for music and general archive backup, just connect the ethernet cable to your main computer and do a synchronisation via FTP. Now I don't burn more cd's as backup, and I am happy as I know I won't never loose my music collection due virus, hard disc problem....

are you sure? Hard Disks are NOT that reliable as you think......

That's true, but it is near imposible that the two hard discs fail the same time, so, when one of them fails, I only have to buy a new one and resync.
With the price of modern HD is a good idea backup on hard disk music (at least for me, with only 50 gb of music, lossy of course). Backup on CD is very painful, burn tons of cd's, two copies of each one on different brands, check their integrity...

you mean RAID 1?
yeah, RAID 1 sure is a pretty safe solution for data backup/archiving.

Well, not raid, but two computers, two hard disks that synchronizes very often, it is even more secure that raid1. Raid does no prevent from deletion, virus... I feel my 50 Gb of music are very secure, it is near imposible the two hard disk on different computer crash the same time (well, a really high power tension problem and the two computer connected the same time and the two computer being afected by that the same time). I think it is a good solution

I liked a lot throwing away all the backup cds I had, thinking the time I consumed burning them, storing, cataloging where the music was....